constant是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 经常的; 不变的; 坚定的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Notwithstanding a constant application of his one armed heel to the flanks of the mare, the most confirmed gait that he could establish was a Canterbury gallop with the hind legs, in which those more forward assisted for doubtful mo-ments, though generally content to maintain a loping trot.
-- Let us then hope that this Mohican may not disappoint our wishes, but prove what his looks assert him to be, a brave and constant friend.'
-- Then even Duncan knew it, by its restless and sidling attitudes, which kept the upper part of its form in constant motion, while the animal itself appeared seated, to be a bear.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In his hand he swayed a ferule, that sceptre of despotic power; the birch of justice reposed on three nails behind the throne, a constant terror to evil doers, while on the desk before him might be seen sundry contraband ar-ticles and prohibited weapons, detected upon the persons of idle urchins, such as half-munched apples, popguns, whirl-igigs, fly-cages, and whole legions of rampant little paper game-cocks.
-- He was, in fact, noted for preferring vicious animals, given to all kinds of tricks which kept the rider in constant risk of his neck, for he held a tractable, wellbroken horse as unworthy of a lad of spirit.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was the constant lover, and though she grew old, losing her rounded lines and her fair comeliness, to him she would certainly never alter.
-- To them he was no more than a beach-comber in constant need of money, remarkable only for the peculiarity that he painted pictures which seemed to them absurd; and it was not till he had been dead for some years and agents came from the dealers in Paris and Berlin to look for any pictures which might still remain on the island, that they had any idea that among them had dwelt a man of consequence.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meanwhile, Herbert constant to his favorite science, Natural History, reverted to the kangaroos, saying, "Besides, we had to deal just now with the species which is most difficult to catch.
-- "By constant work they made the island of Clermont- Tonnerre, and numerous other coral islands in the Pacific Ocean.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That constant pacing to and fro, that never-ending restlessness, that incessant tread of feet wearing the rough stones smooth and glossy is it not a wonder how the dwellers in narrows ways can bear to hear it!Think of a sick man in such a place as Saint Martin's Court, listening to the footsteps, and in the midst of pain and weariness obliged, despite himself (as though it were a task he must perform) to detect the child's step from the man's, the slipshod beggar from the booted exquisite, the lounging from the busy, the dull heel of the sauntering outcast from the quick tread of an expectant pleasure-seeker think of the hum and noise always being present to his sense, and of the stream of life that will not stop, pouring on, on, on, through all his restless dreams, as if he were condemned to lie, dead but conscious, in a noisy churchyard, and had no hope of rest for centuries to come.
-- As to Nell, constant dropping will wear away a stone; you know you may trust to me as far as she is concerned.
-- Besides that it was very difficult to impart to any person not intimately acquainted with the life she led, an adequate sense of its gloom and loneliness, a constant fear of in some way committing or injuring the old man to whom she was so tenderly attached, had restrained her, even in the midst of her heart's overflowing, and made her timid of allusion to the main cause of her anxiety and distress.
-- In place of enlivening his patron with a constant fire of wit or the cheerful rattle of his quarter-staff on the heads of his relations and acquaintance, here was that beaming Punch utterly devoid of spine, all slack and drooping in a dark box, with his legs doubled up round his neck, and not one of his social qualities remaining.
-- But it was not to Mrs Jiniwin alone that Mr Quilp's attention was restricted, as several other matters required his constant vigilance.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He stopped, evidently listening with pleasure to his own composition, although from constant use he knew the forms by heart.
-- These were the helpless people, blunted by constant oppression and temptation, like that boy with the mats, and hundreds of others whom Nekhludoff saw both in and out of prison, and the conditions of those whose lives systematically drove them to the necessity of committing those acts which are called crimes.
-- This condition of constant dread and struggle was very burdensome to her.
-- Nekhludoff was seized with a strange feeling when, alone in the small cell, he listened to the quiet breathing of Vera Efremovna, interrupted by an occasional moan, and the constant din coming from the cells of the convicts.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The next Thursday I went again to Richmond I suppose I was one of the Time Traveller's most constant guests and, arriving late, found four or five men already assembled in his drawing-room.
-- Even in our own time certain tendencies and desires, once necessary to survival, are a constant source of failure.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His looks were not quite friendly, and I was so revolted at these constant changes that I could not forbear whispering, "So you've changed sides again."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I went and came, hoping to calm my troubled spirit by constant movement.
-- From this time for nineteen days, from the 23rd of February to the 12th of March, the Nautilus kept in the middle of the Atlantic, carrying us at a constant speed of a hundred leagues in twenty-four hours.
-- The manometer showed that the Nautilus kept at a constant depth of more than three hundred yards; the compass still pointed to south; the log indicated a speed of twenty miles an hour, which, in such a cramped space, was very great.
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